xvii, 398 pages : 24 cm

This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South

Includes bibliographical references

I call myself an artist -- First words : excerpts from the early fiction (1965-1968) -- More from Oxherding tale (1982) -- Kwoon (1991) -- The writer's notebook (1992) -- The work of the world (1998) -- Philosophy and black fiction (1980) -- Whole sight : notes on new black fiction (1984) -- Where fiction and philosophy meet (1988) -- Novelists of memory (1989) -- A phenomenology of the black body (1975-1976, 1993) -- Introduction to John Gardner's On writers and writing -- Black images and their global impact (1993) -- Northwestern commencement address, 1994 -- Introduction to Mark Twain's What is man? (1995) -- Journal entries on the death of John Gardner (1982-1983, 1995) -- One meaning of Mo' better blues (1991) -- Review of Richard Wright : works (1991) -- Spike Lee does the right thing (1992) -- Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's In my father's house (1992) -- Review of Dinesh D'Souza's The end of racism (1995) -- The King we left behind (1996) -- A capsule history of blacks in comics (1997) -- Selected cartoons -- An interview with Charles Johnson, (1993) / conducted by Jonathan Little -- Critic, not cynic : Charles Johnson talks with Stanley Crouch (1995) -- Philosophy and hydrology : situating discourse in Charles Johnson's Faith and the good thing / John McCumber -- Charles Johnson : free at last! / Stanley Crouch -- Johnson revises Johnson : Oxherding tale and The autobiography of an ex-colored man / Vera Kutzinski -- Wrestling with desire : slavery and black masculinity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale / Jeffrey B. Leak -- Oxherding tale and Siddhartha : philosophy, fiction, and the emergence of a hidden tradition / Rudolph P. Byrd -- Charles Johnson and the philosopher's ghost : the phenomenological thinking in Being and race / Michael Boccia -- It rests by changing : process in The sorcerer's apprentice / Rudolph P. Byrd -- Interrogating identity : appropriation and transformation in Middle passage / Daniel M. Scott III -- The phenomenology of the Allmuseri : Charles Johnson and the subject of the narrative of slavery / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy

This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South

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